I'm Stuart Winter-Tear, an independent AI advisor, author, and former technology entrepreneur.

I write and advise on artificial intelligence, management, and the design of organisations.

I've spent more than 25 years building technology businesses, leading products, working with executives, and discovering that the difficult part of technology is rarely the technology itself.

AI has made that problem considerably more interesting.

We're developing systems that can interpret information, exercise judgement, coordinate activity, and carry out work. Yet much of the conversation still revolves around models, tools, agents, and how many hours somebody saved writing an email.

I'm more interested in what happens to the organisation.

What changes when intelligence no longer resides exclusively in people?

How should work, management, authority, and investment change?

And why do organisations keep buying increasingly capable technology without reconsidering the structures through which it has to deliver value?

Those questions are at the centre of my work.

I've written two books.

A Management Theory for the Age of AI

This book examines how intelligent systems change the design of organisations. It develops ten connected lenses for understanding the implications for management, work, operating models, capital, implementation, and organisational learning.

UNHYPED: From Hype to Hard ROI in the Age of AI

This book examines how organisations move beyond demonstrations and activity to achieve dependable economic returns from AI.

I also write regularly on Substack and LinkedIn, where I examine new research, question fashionable assumptions, and occasionally express disbelief at what passes for AI strategy.

Unhyped is my independent advisory practice. I work with executives, boards, and leadership teams on AI strategy, organisational design, investment decisions, and the practical consequences of introducing intelligent systems into real work. I also speak at industry events and deliver executive briefings.

I don't believe AI is going to produce one inevitable organisation of the future. I do believe it gives us an extraordinary opportunity to reconsider how organisations work, what they can become capable of doing, and which inherited assumptions still deserve to survive.

And I think that's a much more interesting conversation than another demonstration of an agent booking a meeting.

Find out more: www.unhyped.pro

Read my writing: Unhyped AI on Substack

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